Philippines and Borneo

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Organization

  • What about car rental? Shall we rent a car (at what places)? (I guess no need to mostly, maybe between Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan, but the buses might be OK and even more fun :))
  • Another thing: to enter Philippines (I assume we start at Manila), we'll need valid outbound tickets. If we don't posses Philippines→Malaysia tickets at this time, we won't be able to fulfill the requirements (a stay of max 21 days)... So that is why I made a note in my "to check" if it is not better to play it safe and get longer visa (btw., Philippines' embassy is just 200 metres from my office).
  • Total time: Lets assume April 21 as departure day (April 22 in Manila). We have roughly the folling options (all dates of departure):
    • 21-day trip: April 21 – May 12 (absolutely no visa problems but generally a bit short; we should choose this only if business@home/formalities require it)
    • 30-day trip: April 21 – May 21 (looks excellent to me)
    • 40-day trip: April 21 – May 31 (might be a bit too long, but I am generally open to it, if we find many interesting things to see during our research)
  • ... We should decide on this fairly soon, lest the short-notice ticket prices rise to unbearable hights. (Regarding this, the aerolines issue the seasonal prices, the recent season is 1.1. - 31.3. The prices and bonanzas for 1.4. - 30.6. should be available around 7th March. So even in my reservation the price is aproximate.)
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Things to see/do

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Philippines

Lonely Planet | WOW Philippines | article in Wikipedia | Wikitravel

(what P. Petras wrote: C. dentata is abundant as wekk as C. amboinensis .... H.spinosa and H. leytensis are rather on north of island, near town Taytata -- interesting is to go by boat through mangroves there, or on a lake Danao (they rent kayaks), the lake has 600ha square (water monitors, eagles and other birds, monkeys). The bes forest should be around the reservation Malampaya Sound. )

  • Carnivorous plants up in the forests at Luzon should be one of the best places in the world
  • In North Luzon, old small towns may give the impression about the old Spanish colony
  • a friend asked me to buy the seed of Ipomea aquatica, locally called Kangkong. The herbivorous turtles are just mad about that, he said. :)
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Malaysia

Lonely Planet | article in Wikipedia | Wikitravel | Sabah Tourism Board

  • Kota Kinabalu
  • Mount Kinabalu, 4101m, along the main road
  • Sea turtles -- maybe the very east of Borneo, Turtle islands
  • Orang-utang reservation / sanctuary
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Fauna & Flora

Chelonia species on Philippines (where??):

  • Cuora amboinensis ("Data Deficient in Myanmar and Philippines" -- this and latter quotation from CITES convention 2003), OTOH "practically all islands of the Philippines" (Alcala 1986; Gaulke & Fritz 1998; Nietzke 1998), Alcala (1986) reported this species to be found at altitudes up to 500 meters in the Philippines
  • Cyclemys dentata
  • Heosemys leytensis (Philippines pond turtle) -- never seen one even on picture
  • Heosemys spinosa (Populations in Brunei, Myanmar, Singapore, and Philippines are considered to be small and low density)
  • Pelochelys cantorii | [1] | [2] (Asian giant softshell turtle, syn. P. bibroni, P. cumingii), situation in Philippines is Data Deficient but presumed Endangered or Critically Endangered

Chelonia species in Malaysia (which one on Borneo??):

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Preliminary itinerary

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Entry regulations

  • Entry regulations: Philippines – Malaysia — in short: we can both stay up to 21 days in the Philippines and up to one month in Malaysia (David: three months, actually).
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